Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knock. There are those theatregoers who wince when they see, propped up on the stage, a cardboard automobile. To them, this frail vehicle is a symbol for many estimable qualities of stage technique-loud clowning, eccentric costuming, futuristic scenery, boisterous laughter from the actors on the stage-which they, in hypersensitive hauteur, sometimes distrust. As soon as the curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious...
...large of stomach, quick of mind, comfortable of conscience, who can always get and has often accepted a political base on balls in Indiana, last week announced his Presidential candidacy. As he went to bat he made all the motions of a player who is going to knock it into the Presidential bleachers, making perfectly clear he was not just a Favorite...
FUNNY THE TAMING OF THE SHREW-Knock-about discoveries in the art of producing peaceful women (TIME...
From the next room but one we had almost said the adjacent room, came the strains of syncopation, and the Vagabond, not given to such things, realized almost with a start, that he was sitting out a dance with a veritable "wow", a "knock-out", a "hot mama". (Note the quotation marks, which show that the Vagabond does not wholly approve of the vulgar phrasing, used here only for emphasis. The gist of what he means to convey, and the terms the Vagabond himself would use, being a gentleman of the old school, would be belle, or shall...
...pause. When told of the so-called "riot" of last winter he laughed. "Oxford has been called the only place in England where the police are on good terms with the criminal class. A police helmet there is a popular and rather common student trophy. We choose our man knock his helmet off and promptly make away with it. Later we see that he is paid for his head piece...